God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.